<div dir="ltr">O and I did use putty to seal up the power connector. <br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 9:28 PM, Bruce Campbell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:phillybruce@gmail.com" target="_blank">phillybruce@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>If it is the same Chinese 8w amp that I have it is water tight already. Also BBHN is not spread so you aren't limited to the spread spectrum power limits. I had a USB WiFi adapter plugged directly into the amp that was plugged directly into the antenna. A raspberry Pi running HSMM-Pi OS drove the adapter. One got ya with my amp is that my amp could not handle much input power. Power over about 500mw saturated it. I ran it at about 100mw to keep distortion down.<br><br></div>The amp was a pain. I would get it working without the amp first then add it once I get happy with the set-up. If it is the same as mine, it looks like a gold coloured metal box about 3" X 3" X 1" with 2 "wings" to allow you to mount it. It also has 2 BNC connectors on it. <br></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 5:33 PM, Hunter Fuller <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hfuller@pixilic.com" target="_blank">hfuller@pixilic.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="white-space:pre-wrap">I already have a 20V(ish) "ghetto PoE" injector bus. It puts the DC power on the spare pairs of the Ethernet cable. In use at the shop for cameras and the 900MHz radio already. I would try to get online with just the WRT running off of this supply. There will be a little more of a challenge running the amp off of it, unless you run your antenna just inside the shop and put the amp there. <br><br>That is, of course, unless it is a small DC powered amp that will sit outside between the WRT and antenna.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="m_-1936774330067770476h5"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 13:56 Jeff Cotten <<a href="mailto:omegix@gmail.com" target="_blank">omegix@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="m_-1936774330067770476h5"><div dir="ltr" class="m_-1936774330067770476m_-4892791868785145543gmail_msg"><div class="m_-1936774330067770476m_-4892791868785145543gmail_msg"><div class="m_-1936774330067770476m_-4892791868785145543gmail_msg"><div class="m_-1936774330067770476m_-4892791868785145543gmail_msg"><div class="m_-1936774330067770476m_-4892791868785145543gmail_msg"><br class="m_-1936774330067770476m_-4892791868785145543gmail_msg"></div>Does anyone know from looking at all the stuff on the ham station if any of that stuff is an amplifier?<br class="m_-1936774330067770476m_-4892791868785145543gmail_msg"><br class="m_-1936774330067770476m_-4892791868785145543gmail_msg"></div>We can go up to 10W for broadcasting a bbhn mesh signal ( 2.4ghz )<br class="m_-1936774330067770476m_-4892791868785145543gmail_msg"></div><br class="m_-1936774330067770476m_-4892791868785145543gmail_msg"></div>FYI, here's some advice we received on the setup:<br class="m_-1936774330067770476m_-4892791868785145543gmail_msg"><br class="m_-1936774330067770476m_-4892791868785145543gmail_msg">"<br class="m_-1936774330067770476m_-4892791868785145543gmail_msg"><div class="m_-1936774330067770476m_-4892791868785145543gmail_msg"><div dir="auto" class="m_-1936774330067770476m_-4892791868785145543gmail_msg"><span style="font-family:sans-serif" class="m_-1936774330067770476m_-4892791868785145543gmail_msg">You will want your
node in a watertight box up with two glands so cales can exit. Put it up
on the pole with a very short very good coax run like 9913 or LMR400.
Run power and ethernet up to the node box. You can put both on a single
run of Category 5 cable.</span></div><div dir="auto" class="m_-1936774330067770476m_-4892791868785145543gmail_msg"><span style="font-family:sans-serif" class="m_-1936774330067770476m_-4892791868785145543gmail_msg"><br class="m_-1936774330067770476m_-4892791868785145543gmail_msg"></span></div><div dir="auto" class="m_-1936774330067770476m_-4892791868785145543gmail_msg"><span style="font-family:sans-serif" class="m_-1936774330067770476m_-4892791868785145543gmail_msg">Don't
forget that hams are permitted amplifiers for spread spectrum, up to 10
watts (without automatic power control). An amp of the biamp type which
includes an LNA preamp on receive is better, and one that includes a
channel band pass filter is better still.</span></div>"<br class="m_-1936774330067770476m_-4892791868785145543gmail_msg"></div></div></div></div>
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